The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 86

“Dear me! is that all? why it is child’s play,” answered the head; and troubled no more about the palace for thirty-nine days.

Who acts: story, play · What happens: be, trouble · To what, where: play, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, play), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answered	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 answered	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 why	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 play	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 play	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 play	cop
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 child	case
14	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 play	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dear	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 troubled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 troubled	cc
22	troubled	trouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dear	conj
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 troubled	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 days	case
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 nine	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 thirty	punct
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 days	nummod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 palace	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	story	child's play		tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present	child's play		answer property	tree rules
3	trouble	past		more		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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